I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.